Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek

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5...according to our Phil on Thu 23 Jun, 2011.

Lathe cut alert! Limited edition alert! Only 100 of these babies exist and we've not got many left now! Here Rutger and Gareth tackle some jazz standards! They tackle Miles Davis's 'My Funny Valentine' and 'Oh Doctor Jesus'. I think the latter was originally done by Gershwin but I could be wrong... Anyway, with Mr Davis's bass clarinet and Mr Machinefabrieks sound manipulation you get an interesting take on 2 jazz standards. I'm not massively familiar with the originals so I don't know how authentic they are but as stand alone pieces of music they're lovely. Very short though (which is the only downfall) but I guess they're not gonna be long on a 5" lathe cut. My Funny Valentine is my favourite of the two as the clarinet sounds totally haunting. Absolutely gorgeous in fact! They come with download codes 'n' all so you can listen to the thing without wearing your lathe cut out!

5” Lathe cut record in corrugated cardboard sleeve hand stamped with cover artwork conceived and designed by Rutger of Machinefabriek
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Limited to 100 copies. With half sold out on preorder and the remaining half shipped to shops already these are sold out at source
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Jimlad of Brian records has this to say about the release. My father loves three artists. Frank, Dylan and Miles. When Rutger wrote a year or so ago and asked if I would be interested in doing a release with him and Gareth Davis of Jazz standards I was intrigued. When the first track came through and it was “My Funny Valentine” I was blown away. The B side is a personal favourite from Porgy and Bess. I only really know the Miles version (which is one of the most beautifully moving pieces of music I have ever heard). More brooding, dirtier and darker Gareth and Rutgers take on this track is both moving and challenging in equal measure. If only we had a third side for Dylan! Limited to 100.
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Gareth has this to say about the project. "This is part of a bigger project I'm doing which is, to all extents and purposes, reworking/looking at the jazz standard repertoire. The idea being that since the 60s there has been very little experimentation with standards. Think about Miles Davis, Coltrane, Dolphy and the like were doing, it's incredible, they took popular songs...show tunes and turned them into something completely different. Fantastic stuff. But ever since that it's almost as if things have become stuck and there's no movement. That's not to say there is not great playing, there is, it's just that what is actually being done is more of the same thing."

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